June 2006 Archives

News from PC Magazine: Senate Committee Cuts Net Neutrality Amendment I suppose the only surprising part is how close the vote was 11-11. Definitely disappointing. A big threat to innovation... (tags: netneutrality)... Read More..

Obviously, I'm spending a little time in 'the lounge' this afternoon.  [Great feed reader by the way - well worth the nominal $5/month fee.] As most know, one of my soapbox topics for enterprise architects is: The business-driven enterprise architect's... Read More..

On his Science Library Pad blog, Richard Akerman likens the Enterprise Architect to a time traveler: To be an Enterprise Architect is to live in a bit of a temporal disconnect from the rest of the world. This disconnect is... Read More..

WebServicesStandards WS-* standards in poster format from innoQ; last revised sept 2005... informative and scary (tags: soa ws-*)... Read More..

James Governor's MonkChips: Guestpost: On Hardware As A Service, engines as services, and Real SOA Some good thinking on what the 'service-oriented world' will become. XaaS: Software as a Service, Information as a Service, Business as a Service, and... Read More..

Last Friday, I asked if readers were interested in collaborating on questions related to business-driven architecture. This was inspired by a comment from James. Continuing the community-driven theme, I shared a suggested starter question from Mark G. So one question... Read More..

OMG-and-the-SOA.pdf (application/pdf Object) "new OMG group, the SOA Special Interest Group... coordinate SOA efforts within the OMG and between the OMG and other SOA standards groups, including W3C, The Open Group, and OASIS. ...as SOA specific modeling approaches and... Read More..

In response to my building a business-driven architect blogroll post, James asked: "So, what is the first question that we should collectively tackle?" I was thrilled to see this. As I've stated previously, an open exchange of information and... Read More..

The May issue of ACM Queue has a great interview of Amazon's CTO Werner Vogels, by Microsoft Technical Fellow Jim Gray. In the interview, they discuss Amazon's technology transformation from monolithic web applications to a service-oriented architecture. This isn't just... Read More..